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zeitgeist.se
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zeitgeist.se is a personal blog at zeitgeist.se about programming, systems and security. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “StrongSwan 5: How to create your own private VPN”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for step-by-step how-to guides, such as setting up Google Cloud DNS for a domain and configuring a strongSwan IPsec VPN server. One commenter calls the strongSwan guides helpful.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Stuff that sets my geek heart aflutter
Most-linked posts?
- StrongSwan 5: How to create your own private VPN3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-09-02
What Hacker News says?
I added a quick guide how to setup Cloud DNS for your domain. https://www.zeitgeist.se/2014/05/01/google-cloud-dns-step-by...
Comment linking /2014/05/01/google-cloud-dns-step-by-step/
on “Google Cloud DNS”Submitted StrongSwan 5: How to create your own private VPN as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt is indeed a bit of a pain to set up properly, but it can be done, I have a droplet running it 24/7 and have no problems connecting to it from Apple devices. Here are some helpful guides for setting up: https://www.zeitgeist.se/2013/11/22/strongswan-howto-create-... http://www.jfcarter.net/~jimc/documents/strongswan-1308.html
Comment linking /2013/11/22/strongswan-howto-create-your-own-vpn/
on “StrongSwan – IPsec VPN for Linux, Android, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Windows”Submitted Despite heartbleed: Certification revocation refused as a story · 2 points
HN discussion>If folks are looking for an alternative DNS host, there is Google Cloud DNS, which I have been using for a while via Google Domains and it's pretty awesome. It's pretty easy to setup too. [1] For my purposes cheaper than Route53. [1] https://www.zeitgeist.se/2014/05/01/google-cloud-dns-how-to/
Comment linking /2014/05/01/google-cloud-dns-how-to/
on “DDoS Attack Against Default DNS System v2”If you have the possibility to use a dedicated (virtual) server to setup a IPsec/IKEv2 VPN server, have a look at pfSense[1]. It is easy to manage through the webinterface, especially when using IPsec with certificate authentication for road warriors. The current pfSense stable release uses strongSwan 5.3.2 for IPsec VPN's. Documentation for installing and setting up strongSwan from source is available on their own…
Comment linking /2013/11/22/strongswan-howto-create-your-own-vpn/
on “IKEv2 in iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan”Yes, it's very popular with JS to make code more modular. Remember that, although JavaScript is a object-oriented language, it isn't a class-based language - it's a prototype-based language. The best way to grasp the idea is by following various code examples (and how and why they were implemented that way). Also, I found Douglas Crockford's video presentations on JS _extremely_ helpful. I have a list of them here:…
Comment linking /2014/03/26/list-of-helpful-javascript-resources/
on “Functional JavaScript, Part 3: apply, call, and the arguments object”